European popular music

The key component characterizing the groups gathered under the term Krautrock is the synthesis of Anglo-American rock and roll rhythm and energy with a decided will to distance themselves from specifically American blues origins, but to draw on German or sources instead.

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I don't believe I've ever heard Chinese traditional music played in a hexatonic scale. The claim that the "blues scale" "has Chinese origins" is completely baseless. Even if it does, for some reason I'm willing to bet approximately 0% of bluesmen ever listened to Chinese classical music, so it'd be a moot point.

"The Who used power chords, therefore metal sux."

I don't even like blues music, save a handful of albums, but that is a flawed argument.

Blues musicians never seem to come forward and proclaim that their music was made from their own genius in a vacuum. Why does everyone have to state the elements of blues music that existed before it? No one ever said that the cave men played blues music, why attack them because it was not?

Blues musicians never seem to come forward and proclaim that their music was made from their own genius in a vacuum. Why does everyone have to state the elements of blues music that existed before it? No one ever said that the cave men played blues music, why attack them because it was not?

Nobody attacked blues musicians. Again, their musical methods (not new) were packaged with their aesthetic (novel) as a product, marketed and sold the world over. The "attack" (observation) here is that anybody upholding the blues as specifically unique in any essential way is being delusional.

The "attack" (observation) here is that anybody upholding the blues as specifically unique in any essential way is being delusional.

For me, it's that blues was a product.

These guys were singing songs, playing them a certain way perhaps through an inability to change keys, and it got hyped out of proportion, became a media powerhouse, and got oversold because it came from the underdog who is presumed to have wisdom for his suffering.